Ennis's Estate

Citations

• 76 Pa. Super. 292
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 138

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Funeral expenses — Excessive charges.</p> <p>An undertaker who, acting upon instructions of a niece and distant cousin of'the deceased, furnished a casket and conducted a funeral, without inquiring for or consulting the executor or legatees, is entitled to recover only such charges as are reasonable in connection with the station in life of the decedent and not disproportionate to the size of the estate.</p> <p>It is for the orphans’ court to determine from all' the circumstances in the case — the situation in life of the decedent, the size of the estate, etc., — the reasonable expenses of conducting the funeral. It was not error for the orphans’ court to allow only $600 for funeral expenses where a bill of $937.80 wag submitted by a.n undertaker in an estate of a retired domestic amounting to about $22,000.</p>